Elon Musk has asked his Twitter followers if he should bring Vine back.
less than a week after completion His controversial $44 billion takeoverself-styled ‘Chief Twit’ appears open to relaunching short-video app Was laid off by his new company back in 2016.
“Bring Wayne back?” tweeted Musk In a poll of more than 2 million people in the early hours of Monday, more than 69 percent supported its return.
Musk is fine Previous major business decisions for his followers – The world’s richest man last year asked him if he should sell 10% of his electric car company Tesla and complied with the results By selling $5 billion worth of stock.
when he first bought the stock Twitter In April, he conducted a poll Ask people if they want an edit button. The function has since start testingbut only for members with a premium Twitter Blue subscription.
Vine’s potential comeback would put it into a more crowded market than it left six years ago, Tik Tok Building on this idea, it has attracted hundreds of millions of users around the world.
TikTok’s popularity makes other platforms like it too Instagram Variation, offering its own users a similarly curated never-ending feed of clips to scroll through.
Why did Musk bring back Vine?
The SpaceX founder has vaguely turned Twitter into a “one-size-fits-all app” that aims to combine familiar features from other services into a single platform.
Chasing the TikTok crowd seems like an obvious — if cynical — move if he wants to make Twitter a bigger video destination and hopes to grow its subscriber base.
“What can we do to make it better than TikTok?” he asked after a recent poll, perhaps knowing that Vine’s co-creator had attempted a reboot before less popular.
When Vine was axed three years after its launch in 2013, an estimated 200 million users were scrolling through viral video clips of everything from memes to breaking news moments.
TikTok had more than 1 billion monthly active users as of earlier this year. Its success is due to how its algorithms successfully tailor users’ feeds to keep them engaged.
Meanwhile, Twitter is struggling to retain its most active users. According to internal research seen by Reuters, the number of “heavy users” (those who log in six or seven days a week and tweet three to four times) has been “absolutely declining” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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What other plans does Musk have?
Musk’s early days at Twitter were mostly about talking about what he might do with the platform.
Have Denies reports he plans mass layoffsand insist that he has Form a committee with “broad views” in guesswork Long-term banned accounts may return.
Over the weekend, Musk himself tweeted a link to an article, which he then deleted, to promote a baseless conspiracy theory. Hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi husband.
However, Musk revealed that the platform’s verification policy is “in the process of being revised” following multiple reports that Twitter will start charging users who want to keep the blue badge.
Twitter Verification is designed for well-known people who want to prove their identity, such as politicians, movie stars, musicians, and journalists.
Platformer and The Verge report that Musk wants to lock in the verification behind Twitter Blue for $4.99 a month.